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I'll Be Home For Christmas

If you had to pin a precise date to the dawn of the Golden Age of American Christmas Songs, it would probably be December 1942. Irving Berlin had written "White Christmas" a couple of years earlier, and was reasonably confident about it. But, as canny as he was, he didn't foresee how the song would be transformed by a single event: Pearl Harbor. Twelve months after the attack, American servicemen were far away in the south Pacific and contemplating their first Christmas at war, under glorious tropical skies that only made home seem even more distant. "White Christmas" isn't a song about snow, it's a song about home. And Berlin wasn't the only songwriter to understand there was a huge audience for that at a time when most families had at least one empty chair round the Christmas table...

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Steyn Live!

Steyn in Florida - Tickets on Sale Now!

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Join Mark for a week of pure Steynamite in the Sunshine State as he flies south for a snowbird tour across Florida this February. Tickets go on sale this morning - Wednesday December 4th - and they make a great Christmas gift for the Steyn fan in your family.

If you only know Mark from print, TV and radio, you're in for a treat: There's nothing quite like joining Steyn for an evening of "the usual blend of comedy and terror". "At one point, I just lost it. I was laughing so hard, I couldn't breathe," said Catherine Sims, after seeing Mark at Hillsdale College. "The best night of my entire life," declared satisfied customer M Craig Williams after catching Steynamite in Toronto.

This is Mark's first statewide tour of Florida, and, as with last year's sell-out tour of Australia, you won't want to leave it too late to book seats. Tickets are available direct from the theatres:

February 9th - Jacksonville: Symphony Hall at the Times Union Center for the Performing Arts
box office: (904) 633-6110

February 10th - St Petersburg: The Mahaffey Theatre
box office: (727) 893-7832 or (800) 874-9020

February 11th - Ft Pierce: The Sunrise Theatre
box office: (772) 461-4775

February 12th - Ft Myers: The Barbara Mann Performing Arts Hall
box office: (239) 481-4849 or (800) 440-7469

February 13th - Miami: The Olympia Theatre at Gusman Center
box office: (305) 372-0925

See you in the Sunshine State for Steynamite in Florida!

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Happy Warrior

Those Who Can't, Govern

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For much of last year, a standard trope of President Obama's speechwriters was that there were certain things only government could do. "That's how we built this country — together," he declared. "We constructed railroads and highways, the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge. We did those things together." As some of us pointed out, for the cost of Obama's 2009 stimulus bill alone, you could have built 1,567 Golden Gate Bridges — or one mega–Golden Gate Bridge stretching from Boston to just ...

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The Hugh Hewitt Show

"A Man of Enormous Grace and Dignity"

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(Transcript) In his recent appearance on The Hugh Hewitt Show, Mark discussed the passing of Nelson Mandela and more.

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Making Spirits Bright

It's the Christmas Season at SteynOnline!

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One consequence of the botched launch of Obamacare is that it has, judging from his plummeting numbers with "Millennials," diminished Barack Obama's cool. It's not merely that the website isn't state-of-the-art but that the art it's flailing to be state of is that of the mid-20th-century social program. The emperor has hipster garb, but underneath he's just another Commissar Squaresville. So, health care being an irredeemable downer for the foreseeable future, this week the president pivoted (as they say) to "economic inequality," which will be, he assures us, his principal focus for the rest of his term. And what's his big idea for this new priority? Stand well back: He wants to increase the minimum wage!